I remember playing this CD when my son Dylan, was just 5 [he had a hair-cut like the boy in 1997's Liar-Liar] we were riding along together in my Grand Marquis, in Fountain Hills, he said from the back seat "I like this music Dad." I said "You would be correct sir! This is the Yellow-Jackets and it's some of the Best Music that there is in the World." He smiled and looked out the window again. It was a great Day. THX Yellow Jackets!
I’m in my 45 and I grew up listening to this record and have been exposed to other Jazz records. However, Mile High was and is my all time favorite record out of all the hip hop and R&B records in my lifetime😎😅🙌🏽💯
Out processed from the Navy, taking the ferry across the Puget Sound into downtown Seattle with this song blasting in my headphones! God, the feeling! The glossy high-rises and twinkling lights rising above the wharf in a chilly sea breeze. So much hope and excitement for my next chapter. Will never forget the feeling.
I was young when my folks played this (late 80's) and I love the live version from Montreux. Your "old days" reference is relevant to me though even though I'm in my 30's. The old days for me was being exposed to brilliant music back then when my Dad (our Music Man was still with us) I'm guessing it means something different to you. Love how music has the potential and does connect many ages and brings back so many brilliant memories for many of us.
If you dont get goose bumps and uplifted by this cut you are either deaf or not living man. College days. Used to play this before my exams to get pumped up to ace those suckers. Great track.
This song sounds like something that would be played at a graduation. The feeling of this song, to me, sounds sad and happy at the same time, like the passing of one accomplishment and on to the next challenge with a positive outlook.
YES! Played before the ceremony, as the administrator take their places and the guests find their seats, while the graduates queue just beyond the auditorium.
Jazz Haze: I was at MHCC around 1989, 90. My mother once stage managed a Tom Grant show at Civic Auditorium. I didn't play much jazz around Portland, except for a gig with Steve Christofferson. Other than at the college I played mostly Bar Band rock n roll around rural Oregon. Still playing today. :>) Never did hear of Big Bang.
this = seeing only the positive outlooks !!!!! miss late 80´s/early 90´s positive vibes!!!! .... and Marc Russo is the reason why this tune sounds so joyful !!!!!
Anytime you scan your heart with this - AND YOU WILL, "Springtime is has its own miracles" - Without matters, long ago is never far away--- ALL TIMES ARE NOW , THE GOOD OLD TIMES!
I remember playing the drums to this in the garage on my Yamaha kit cuz that’s what he played on this (or at least I thought so at the time) it was like 1989 and I was 15, I was at U of Michigan music school in the fall of 1990 and always played this CD in my Walkman
This was, as far as i'm aware, the first song i heard with the Jackets kinda funny story behind. In the early 2000:s i was staying at my parents place looking after their dog and began to look among their lp:s. There i found an album with a band called Yellowjackets and the album was "Four Courners...i knew directly it must have been something my oldest brother had left behind when he moved out. Anyway i put it on and the first song was this one needles to say i got so hooked especially due to the alto sax of Marc Russo! He has the most beautiful alto sound i've ever heard!!!
Funny! Back in 1987 a friend of mine that I used to fly with made a video of flying and put it to music (Spyro Gyra actually) I really like the song so he recorded a tape for me on there was extra room on the side so he added another song.. This one.. I loved it! ON the other side was Jean Luc Ponty so I got a triple dose of Jazz. Been listening to it now for decades.
Nupe Alpha Theta/TSU Soulja/2 1986 This band and Jean Luc Ponty opened my ears to this music Jazz Fusion and I’ve never been the same?!, The Quality of Musicianship is unquestionable!!!, Marc Russo is a Beast on this joint!!!
"....Amongst the Arts, Music is the most powerful one because can make you happy or make you cry and yet, it's just a Sound that you can't even see!" (Arthur Schopenhauer) Carus Alambra
These guy's to me are soooooo incredible ....they are as real in jazz today as in my view one could ever find , with their fused sound of or mix sound of traditional and smooth???? I love it , it is great.
In1986Setting up the sound system for the Taste of Chicago a 18 block system and we put that on as a track to test the system and I've been stuck on this song ever since will you rock the park with that Mile High
Isaac, Bought this cassette📼 when it's was released in 1987. Still giving me chills since I put in the deck and press play. Needed a shot of inspiration this morning, and the Yellowjackets was my remedy.✌
I love this band and discovered them in such a circuitous way: a RU-vid comment on a Bram Tchaikovsky video, that Michael Bolton's band from before his solo career, Blaxkjack, got more publicity but fewer sales than BT. Since I'd never known Bolton was famous before Laura Branigan cut "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You," I looked up the band and found one member joined this group after leaving Blackjack. (Another one joined the Good Rats, who don't sound like the Yellow Jackets but are good, too.) My father, who died last year and whose birthday was two days ago, liked this sort of music and now the window of time to ask if he ever heard of the Yellow Jackets has passed. C'est la vie...
Not only my fav Jackets' disc, but willing to put it up with any jazz classic made in the previous 50 years, (blasphemy, i know) but there isn't a bad composition on the entire album.......
Actually the first abum was the album by the same name YELLOWJACKETS. ROBBEN FORD's guitar was the featured instrument. The second album was Mirage a Trois. Robben was still on a few tracks, but the band added saxaphone player Marc Russo. Robben left. Politics and Four Corners followed.
I love their upbeat pieces, like this, Spirit of the West, Homecoming, and I use them for lyric ideas. V1: It's long time past for leavin' The sun begins its r-i-se Every place has its own season Lingering would be a lie Ch: At the top of the world There is no mystery It's always now, always here Just a whisper of fear And the trail runs as far as we see Here on the top of the world Mountain under our feet aching and tired and cold but it never gets old And we're feeling that life is so sweet Here at the top of the world V2: The air is thin and freezing My mind slow but br-i-ght I can hear my steady breathing The snow's a glare of white instr bridge 1 Ch: At the top of the world There is no mystery It's always now, always here Just a murmur of fear And the trail runs as far as we see Here on the top of the world Mountain under our feet aching and tired and cold but it never gets old And we're feeling that life is so sweet Here at the top of the world
just excellent.......so many years and thjis song still sounds really great..........thats really a huge failure that the initial YELLOW JACKETS with MARK RUSSO change so much over the years because when RUSO was their sax player..........they were and still unsurpassed-
